Soft Bevel We start with a new RGB image, white background, black
foreground. Type some text using type tool. Note, if you are using Photoshop 4.0 it
will create a layer of your type. You should merge it down before you continue. Just hit
Ctrl-E (Cmd-E on Mac). |
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Now make 2 more copies of it (Image/Duplicate...).
- we will need them later. First one as shadow and second one as highlights. Ok, let's say you have 3 images - Untitled-1, Untitled-2 and Untitled-3. We will use Untitled-1 as a basic channel. Switch to Untitled-2 and use Gaussian Blur with setting 2.0 on it (Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur...). |
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Switch to Untitled-3 and use Gaussian Blur here as well (with same setting). Invert the image (Image/Map/Invert). |
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Fine, now you have to offset the images, so highlights and
shadows look real. I'd recommend using Offset filter to do that. First let's offset Untitled-2 (shadow file). Go to Filter/Other/Offset... and enter 2 Horiz and 2 Vert. Now use same filter on Untitled-3 but with -2 Horiz and -2 Vert (so we move it left up) |
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Switch to Untitled-1. Image/Calculate... Use settings like on the image in the left. |
| Again, go to Image/Calculations (make sure Untitled-1 is active window) and use same settings but Source-2 to Untitled-3. | |
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Now it's almost ready. Go to Image>Adjust> Hue/Saturation..., and click Colorize checkbox and play with colors (decrease Saturation). |
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HINT - If you need another background around type and want to get rid of those glow/shadow stuff around the letters, when you type the text at the beginning, just save the selection (Select>Save Selection...) and after it's done, load the selection, invert it and fill with black or whatever. |